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Turning Photograph Into Cartoon-Style Picture

Wondering how those guys on the internet turn photograph into a nice cartoon-style picture? Eager tomake one yourself but don't know how to do it? Looking for an Adobe Photoshop tutorial on it butcouldn't find any that satisfies your need?

Search no more. You've already found it!

Now here's how to turn your favorite photo into a cartoon photo.

Be aware though, a photo cartoonization process (or cartooning, some people may say) is a patience-demanding job. But the result is very much satisfying.

For this tutorial we will use a photo of Rihanna.

Here's the original photo

And here's the final result of this tutorial



First of all, download the original picture of Rihanna here.

And start to work.

Step 1: Preparing the Canvas

1. Open the original photo in Adobe Photoshop. (In this tutorial I

use Adobe Photoshop CS. I haven’t got other versions of AdobePhotoshop, but I guess the entire steps described in this tutorialcan be applied on any version of Photoshop)

On choosing the photo to be cartoonized, choose a clear and sharpphoto with the face of the person clearly seen. Blur, out of focus,or under-exposed photo is a bad choice. The larger the resolutionof the photo is the better

2. On the 'Layers Palette', drag and drop the 'background' layer

to the 'New Layer' button to duplicate it.

Rename the new layer to 'original'. (To rename a layer, right-clickon the name in the Layers Palette and select Layer Properties).

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We will keep the original photo (the 'original' layer) intact in case something ''wrong' happened in ourcartooning activity and need the original picture.

3. Lock this layer (click the 'lock all'

button ), and turn the visibility of this layer off.

4. Double click the 'background' layer. Click 'OK'.

5. Create a new layer. Rename it into 'background'. We will use it as background layer for ourcartoon photo. Fill it with orange using Paint Bucket tool.



6. Move the layer to the bottom.

Now our layers will look something like this:

Step 2: Removing Unwanted Areas of the Picture



Isolate the object. Clear out all unwanted parts of the photograph. Use Pen Tool for this purpose. If you've never used this tool previously, I suggest you to take a look at Melissa Clifton tutorial first.

You could use Eraser Tool, Magic Eraser Tool, or Background Eraser Tool which is simpler and fasterfor this purpose, but the result won't be as professional.

Take the Pen Tool, create a path around the object (Rihanna for this case), load path as selection (ctrl+ Enter), inverse the selection (ctrl + shift + i), cut (del), then deselect the selection (ctrl + D).

Step 3: Creating outline of the picture

Our next step is to create the outlineof the picture.

1. Copy the 'Layer 0' layer (drag and

drop it to the 'create a new layer'button).

Rename it to 'outline'.

2. Menu: Image :: Adjustments :: Shadow/Highlight...

Click OK.

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This step is not a must. But most of the time it will improve the clearness of the outline.

3. Make sure color palette is black for the foreground and white for the background. (Press

'd' if they're not).

4. Turn the picture into outline using photocopy filter.

menu: Filter :: Sketch :: Photocopy...

Set 'Detail' to 3.

Set 'Darkness' to 8.

Click 'OK'

The value for 'Detail' depends on the picture. Most of the time a value of '2'gives the best result.

Experiment with this setting. The goal is to make the outline as detail aspossible so we can recognize the result as Rihanna, but not over-detailed that

the outline becomes 'dirty'.

5. Turn the outline into solid black lines.

menu: Image :: Adjustments :: Threshold...

Turn the slider right and left, experiment withit, until the preview displays the best outlineyou can get (a compromise between 'detailenough' and 'clean enough').

Click OK when you're satisfied with the result.



That's it. Now we're done with the outline.

Here's the result so far..

Next, we will apply some shading to give depth to the picture and then colorize it.

On the first part of the tutorial, we have made the outline of the cartoon photo. Here's what we got sofar:



By the end of part 2 of the tutorial, we will have something like this:

Now begin...

Step 4: Coloring the Skin

Our next step is coloring the skin.

1. Select the 'outline' layer. Press Ctrl-J to duplicate the layer (or

drag and drop it to the 'create a new layer' button). Rename thenew layer to 'white'.



2. Let's make this layer pure white.

Choose menu: Image :: Adjustments :: Brightnness/Contrast...

Move the 'Brightness' slider all the way to the right (+100) andthe 'Contrast' slider all the way to the left (-100).

Click OK.

Now we have something like this:



3. Drag the 'white' layer below the 'outline' layer.

4. Change the blending mode of 'outline' layer to 'Multiply'.

5. Press 'd' to set the foreground color to black and

background color to white.

6. On the Layers Palette, select the 'white' layer.



7. Click the 'Create new fill or adjustment layer' at the bottom of Layers Palette. On the popup

menu, choose 'Solid Color...'. A 'Color Picker' dialog box will be displayed.

On the 'Color Picker', pick a creamy brown color.This color will be used for the skin color. (I picked#FAD594 for the skin. You don't need to be too

picky here. We can change the color easily laterwhenever we need to).

Click OK

8. Now we have something like this.

9. Choose 'Paint Bucket Tool' . Click on the canvas to fill skin's layer mask with black color.

10. Rename our new layer to 'skin'.

And now we have something like this.



11. Create a clipping mask between 'skin' layer and 'white' layer.

Press Ctrl + G while the 'skin' layer is still selected.

12. On the 'Layers Palette', click on the 'outline' layer while

holding (pressing) the Ctrl button. This will tell the ants tomarch around Rihanna. Oops, I mean, this will put a selectionmark around Rihanna.



13. Press 'x' to switch foreground and background color.

14. Choose 'Paint Bucket' tool, click inside the selection on the canvas to fill it with white.

15. Press Ctrl + D to deselect the selection area.

And we're done coloring the skin.

Here's what we got so far:



On the second part of the tutorial, we have colorized the skin. And in doing so, we also created thebase structure for our color layers.And here's what we got so far:

By the end of part 3 of the tutorial, we will have something like this:



Now begin...

Step 5: Applying Some Shading

A 'flat' picture is not too nice to look at. We have to apply some shading to the picture to give it depth.

What's more, giving some shading to the picture (especially the face area) makes the person in ourcartoon photo more recognizable because the viewer will be able to see the cheek bone, jaw bone, etcwhich differentiate someone from the others.

We would like to have three colors for the face:

1. 1. skin base color

2. 2. shade (a darker color)3. 3. tint (a lighter color)

We already have the skin base color (i.e. the 'skin' layer), so now we need to add the shade and thetint.

Let's go!

1. Duplicate the 'Layer 0' layer.

We will have a new layer named 'Layer 0 copy'.

Move it (drag it) to the top of 'outline' layer.



2. Blur this layer a little.

Menu: Filter :: Blur :: Gaussian Blur...

Set the radius of the

blurring to 4 pixels.(Typical values arebetween 2 and 4. Avalue of 2 is usuallyenough).

Click OK

3. Select menu: Filter :: Artistic :: Cotout...

Set 'Edge Simplicity' to 2.

Set 'Edge Fidelity' to 1.

Experiment with 'Number of Levels' value while looking at thepreview window (pay special attention to the face). Typical



values are between 5 and 8. Choose a value giving the best result for the shading of the face.

Some variation for 'Number of Levels' and the corresponding result:

Let's choose 8 for 'Number of Levels' for it gives the nicest shading on the face.

Click OK on the Cutout dialog box.

4. Using the result of the Cutout filter, we will create a shade and a tint.



5. Rename the 'Layer 0 copy' layer to 'shade'.

6. Duplicate the 'shade' layer. Rename it (the duplicate) to 'tint'.

7. Now we have two new layers, tint and

shade. Let's work on the shade first.

Turn visibility of the 'tint' layer off.

Select the 'shade' layer.



8. Choose menu: Image :: Adjustments :: Threshold...

Turn the slider right and left, experiment with it while looking at the preview.


9. On the 'Tools Palette', pick 'Magic Wand Tool' .

10. On the canvas, click on the white area.



11. Press Delete to cut the white area of 'shade' layer.

12. Press Ctrl + D to deselect the selection.

13. Change the blending mode of

'shade' layer to 'Soft Light'.

Change the opacity to 40%(experiment with this value to get thedesired result).

We're done with the shade. Now let's continue with the tint.

Basically, the steps are the same as what we've done to create the shade.

14. Select the 'tint' layer.

15. Choose menu: Image :: Adjustments :: Threshold...

Turn the slider right and left, experiment with it while looking at the preview.




16. On the 'Tools Palette', pick 'Magic Wand Tool' .

17. On the canvas, click on the black area.

18. Press Delete to cut the black area of 'tint' layer.

19. Press Ctrl + D to deselect the selection.

20. Change the blending mode of 'tint' layer to 'Soft Light'. Change the opacity to 60% (experiment

with this value to get the desired result).



That's it. Now we're done with the shading step.

And here's the result so far:

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